The Plaza de España in the Parque de María Luisa appears in George Lucas' Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones as well as in Lawrence of Arabia as the British Army HQ in Cairo, while the courtyard was the King Alfonso XIII Hotel.
The Plaza of the Americas also appeared in Lawrence, substituting for Jerusalem, and in Anthony Mann's El Cid. It would also serve as the Palace of Vladek Sheybal's Bashaw in The Wind and the Lion (1975) (including the memorable attack scene by the US Marines.)
Seville is given as the setting of part of the action on Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible II, but wasn't shot there. The portrayal of the Holy Week in the film holds no link to reality.
The Patio de los Naranjos in the Catedral appears in Kingdom of Heaven.
The Spanish translation of My Fair Lady's phonetic exercise "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain" is "La lluvia en Sevilla es una pura maravilla", "The rain in Seville is a pure marvel".
The surrealist film That Obscure Object of Desire, by director Luis Buñuel, features many scenes shot in Seville.
The action comedy Knight and Day featuring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz also filmed several action sequences in Seville.
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